How can we improve survival from breast cancer in developing countries?
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179 ISSN 1758-1923 10.2217/BMT.13.11 © 2013 Future Medicine Ltd Breast Cancer Manage. (2013) 2(3), 179–183 The 5-year age-standardized populationbased breast cancer survival rates in most developing countries vary between 9.5 and 66.0%, which are significantly lower than in high-income countries. This poor survival reflects the limited breast cancer awareness among women and primary care practitioners, advanced clinical presentation and limited capacity for early diagnosis and effective multimodality treatment and a significant proportion of breast cancer patients not accessing care or not completing treatment due to poorly developed and poorly accessible healthcare services or socioeconomic barriers. Critical to improving the early detection of breast cancer and breast cancer survival in developing countries is enhancing the awareness of breast cancer and improving the healthcare infrastructure by:
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